Wilderlands Deposit Scarcity

<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">Wilderlands Deposit Scarcity</span>

<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A utility module within the Wilderlands ecosystem.</span>

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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">**Notice: This mod will no longer be updated/maintained. The features contained in this mod have been moved to a new project: &nbsp;<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">Wilderlands Geology </span></span>

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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Simply put:</span>

<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">There is far too much ore available in the default world for my taste.</span>

<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This mod does something about it.</span>

<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Developed for <span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline"><span class="whitespace-normal">Vintage Story</span></span>, Wilderlands Deposit Scarcity dramatically reduces ore abundance and reshapes deposit distribution to make mining more meaningful and exploration more necessary.</span>

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<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">Design Philosophy</span>

<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The goal is to make:</span>

• <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Trade more valuable</span>

• <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Exploration more important</span>

• <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Ruin scavenging more impactful</span>

• <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Panning more worthwhile</span>

• <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Mining operations more deliberate</span>

<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Especially early on, players should not be able to rely on abundant nearby deposits.</span>

<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Large iron deposits in particular may require:</span>

• <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Traveling significant distances</span>

• <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Establishing remote mining sites</span>

• <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Coordinated transport logistics</span>

<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">On multiplayer servers, this encourages infrastructure and cooperation.</span>

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<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;">World Generation Changes</span>

<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Wilderlands Deposit Scarcity modifies deposit spawn rates and size variability across the board.</span>

<span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Core Adjustments</span>

• <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">All ore and coal deposit spawn chances reduced to ¼ of default values (less for some types)</span>

• <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Iron deposit spawn chances reduced significantly more than ¼</span>

• <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Greater variance in deposit sizes</span>

• <span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Some smaller iron deposits can generate closer to the surface in certain rock strata</span>